Vectors have become a new data type in Azure SQL Databases. Although vectors can be used for all sorts of things, their most important use is storing the LLM embeddings in AI applications. To see which paragraphs of text are similar to one another, lots of vectors need to be computed, stored in a database, and then distances between these vectors needs to be computed efficiently.

For this, Azure SQL Server has a new data type, and a few functions to work with this. Learn why vectors are important, and see how Azure SQL can become the place to store and query your vectors in this demo-rich session. Even if you're not into LLM's, you will find some inspiration for the use of the Vector data type.